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August 18, 2023

Why Factories Lose Millions to Downtime Every Year Without Knowing It

Manufacturing is growing fast across the world. But there is a silent problem eating into profits across factories of every size — untracked, unmanaged downtime.

The reason it stays invisible is simple. Most factories do not have a system to measure it. Breakdowns are communicated verbally or on paper. No costs are logged. No time is tracked. By the end of the month, no one knows exactly how much production was lost — it just shows up as lower output and thinner margins.

Across industries — textiles, food processing, plastic moulding, packaging — the story is the same. A machine stops. Someone calls the vendor. The vendor arrives when they can. The machine gets fixed. And the cycle repeats next month.

What nobody calculates is the compound effect. One breakdown a week, each costing $5,000 in lost production — that is $260,000 a year from a single machine. Multiply that across 10 machines and the number becomes staggering.

The solution is not complicated. It starts with visibility — knowing when machines stop, how long they are down, and what each stoppage costs. That data alone is enough to drive better decisions, faster repairs, and smarter maintenance planning.

Rasset brings this visibility to factories of every size — with no complicated setup and no need for a dedicated IT team.

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